. >>> major funding for "religion & ethics news weekly" is provided by the lily endowment, an indianapolis based private family foundation dedicated to its founders' interest in religion, community development and education. additional funding by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and group retirement products, that's why we'reour retirement company.com. also by the henry luce oundion, and the corporation for public broadcasting. >>> welcome, i'm tim o'brien, sitting in for bob abernathy. thank you for joining us, a new poll this week by the ppw research center finds that the majority of americans believe that president obama is a muslim. most of them saying they got that information from the media. meanwhile, the number of people who say they know he is christian has fallen to only 34%. the laest percentage of those polled, 43% say they didn't know the president's religion, a number which has also risen from last year, researchers say these changes can be traced to attacks by opponents and on the fact that obama is not as visibly religious as his predecessors, the white h